The Plane! The Plane!

This morning, a friend pointed out an interesting phenomenon taking place in the NFL, more specifically with its players. All across the league, NFL players are taking a great interest in modern aeronautics and plane spotting. Watch any game on a Sunday and you'll see that many players bring this new hobby with them on the field. It's easy to catch them plane spotting. Usually after a player makes a decent play, he looks up at the sky and points to a passing aircraft. More than likely these players are taking a greater interest in the science of aeronautics because they themselves have recently purchased a new personal jet or, more than likely, are planning to purchase one soon. Why else would they indiscriminately point at flying vessels AFTER they make a big play? Because those big plays earn them the extra income necessary to get that plane they've always wanted and they can't help but be excited about it.

Hey look! The new Learjet 40 XR.

Three more touchdowns and it's mine.

While it's great to see that NFL players are expanding their horizons with the science of aeronautics, these players are inadvertently revealing a massive security threat. As I stated before, this growing interest is occurring all across the league. Watch any game taking place in any city and you'll see players pointing at passing aircraft multiple times during a game. So the question is: Why is every NFL stadium built right under the flight paths of most of the air traffic in the United States? Didn't the NFL see the danger in building stadiums that house tens of thousands of people right below the path of aircraft that could accidentally crash into said stadiums or, worse yet, aircraft that could be hijacked by terrorists and willfully crashed into the stadiums? Thousands would be killed in the plane crash and surely many more would be injured in the ensuing stampede to exit the stadium. A plane crash in a stadium would be a devastating attack. And yet the NFL, in all their wisdom, has given the terrorists a direct and open path to do just that. So I call on the NFL, in the name of saving lives, to pick up every stadium in the United States and move it about five or ten miles down the road. That should fix the problem or at the very least, gentrify a new area of every major US city, thus increasing tax revenue and solving our economic crisis. It's a win either way.

 

Does any one else see how low that plane is?